[1][2] The project was founded in 2009, based on an initiative of the "AG Digitalisierung" (Working Group Digitization) of the Museum Association of Saxony-Anhalt.

Conceptually innovative developments, such as the quality control tool PuQi or the overview pages for establishing relationships between people based on museum objects, are presented to the scientific community using presentations and articles[8][9] The frontend is the primary public interface to the different instances of museum-digital.

Originally developed only as a graphical interface for entering publication data, it has since turned into a collection management system.

Using the themator, users can create topic pages and digital exhibitions, which are primarily focused on a contiguous and structured narratives.

These controlled vocabularies can then be browsed and re-used through md:term, which offers them in a human-readable way along with JSON and SKOS APIs.